Erin Napier has let fans inside her marriage to Ben Napier and given insight into their relationship. She told fans that one of the reasons she was attracted to the “Home Town: Ben’s Workshop” star was his resemblance to a celebrity from her youth. “[A]ll this talk about the new [J]ackass movie has me feeling 16 when i had a crush on ryan dunn which led to my crush on ben napier,” she wrote on X, formerly Twitter, in February 2022 alongside throwback snaps of her husband, and a photo of Ryan Dunn.
As shown in throwback snaps, Ben had that beard when he first met his future wife in 2004, but he did experiment with going clean-shaven in 2006. “And when he walked out [after shaving] I cried because he was like a stranger to me,” Erin told The Wrap in a joint interview with her husband in January 2019. Beardless photos of Ben are tough to find, but Erin shared one on X in February 2022 after a fan asked.
Of course, Ben is not the only one of the reality TV couple whose looks matured over time. Before switching to short hair, Erin kept her hair long in high school as she showcased in three old pictures posted to Instagram in August 2021. In a separate throwback post, Erin said she “cut it all off the first week of college” (via People).
